On a party line vote, today the New Hampshire State Senate rejected a modest measure to reinstate and raise a state minimum wage. The motion to defeat HB1403 was made by Senator Bragdon, who failed to attend the bill hearing and referred to it as “feel good legislation.”
Kary Jencks, executive director, stated: “Contrary to the out-of-touch ramblings of Senators Bragdon and Sanborn, HB 1403 was neither ‘feel good legislation’ nor the Trojan Horse of a ‘War on Employers.’ Raising the minimum wage is a commonsense effort to ensure hard working Granite Staters earn a living wage because no one working full-time should live in poverty.
Today’s partisan vote is a tragedy for 76,000 low wage workers in New Hampshire struggling to make ends meet—today, Senate Republicans let us all down by putting politics over constituents’ needs with their vote to deny hard working Granite Staters the raise they deserve.”
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New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Action is a statewide non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to social, economic, and political justice. For thirty-five years, NHCAA has been working to ensure Granite Staters’ access to affordable health care coverage, protect civil rights and voter rights, create good jobs through sustainable and smart tax policy, and ensure economic security for the 99%.
